The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Development Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Consultant
Rank 536 569 567
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Development Consultant 18 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.034% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.037% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 8
Average daily rate £469 £425 £409
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% +4.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £275 £382
10% offered a daily rate of more than £574 £550 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £280 £428
% change year-on-year
+47.32% -34.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £50.00 £57.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2132 2587 2980
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Development Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Development Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Development Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Development Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Development Consultant within the UK.

Development Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Development Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Development Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Development Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Development Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Development Consultant within the UK.

Development Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Development Consultant
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +13 14 £513 +18.84% 4
London +20 9 £556 +25.35% 1
Berkshire +27 3 £425 - 1
South East +16 3 £425 +25.00% 1
North West +13 2 - -
City of London +6 1 £513 -
Coventry - - - -
Egham - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Norfolk - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Norwich - - - -
Reading - - - -

Development Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Development Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Development Consultant in their job title.

1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) VB
3 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.29%) Java
3 5 (14.29%) SAP
4 4 (11.43%) C++
4 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.571%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.571%) Retail
5 3 (8.571%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.571%) Business Development
5 3 (8.571%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.571%) OO
5 3 (8.571%) Apache
5 3 (8.571%) Project Management
5 3 (8.571%) C#
5 3 (8.571%) Web Services
5 3 (8.571%) XML
5 3 (8.571%) UNIX
6 2 (5.714%) Windows
6 2 (5.714%) Linux
6 2 (5.714%) UML
6 2 (5.714%) XSLT
6 2 (5.714%) STL
6 2 (5.714%) Perl
6 2 (5.714%) PHP
6 2 (5.714%) HTML

Development Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Development Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Development Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.571%) Web Services
1 3 (8.571%) XML
2 2 (5.714%) XSLT
2 2 (5.714%) HTML
2 2 (5.714%) J2EE
2 2 (5.714%) WSDL
2 2 (5.714%) Django
2 2 (5.714%) STL
3 1 (2.857%) Struts
3 1 (2.857%) jQuery
3 1 (2.857%) RESTful
3 1 (2.857%) HTML5
3 1 (2.857%) OSGi
3 1 (2.857%) Apache Sling
3 1 (2.857%) EDIFACT
3 1 (2.857%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.857%) Lucene
3 1 (2.857%) Spring
3 1 (2.857%) MFC
3 1 (2.857%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.571%) Apache
2 2 (5.714%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.714%) SAS
2 2 (5.714%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.857%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.857%) Gentran
3 1 (2.857%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.857%) JDE OneWorld
2 1 (2.857%) Tridion
2 1 (2.857%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.857%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.857%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.857%) SAP Business One
2 1 (2.857%) JDE World
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.714%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (5.714%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.857%) SAP BW
4 1 (2.857%) GIS
4 1 (2.857%) Crystal Analysis
4 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.857%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (5.714%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.857%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (8.571%) Telecoms
1 3 (8.571%) Retail
2 2 (5.714%) Marketing
3 1 (2.857%) French Language
3 1 (2.857%) Finance
3 1 (2.857%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) SWIFT
2 1 (2.857%) NHS
2 1 (2.857%) Mathematics
2 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.857%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.571%) UNIX
2 2 (5.714%) Windows
2 2 (5.714%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (8.571%) OO
1 3 (8.571%) Project Management
1 3 (8.571%) Business Development
1 3 (8.571%) Business Analysis
2 2 (5.714%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (5.714%) Analytics
2 2 (5.714%) Change Management
2 2 (5.714%) ETL
2 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (5.714%) UML
2 2 (5.714%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (5.714%) Workflow
2 2 (5.714%) Logistics
3 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
3 1 (2.857%) Migration
3 1 (2.857%) Information Security
3 1 (2.857%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (2.857%) Data Management
3 1 (2.857%) Content Management
3 1 (2.857%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) VB
3 5 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) C++
4 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.571%) C#
6 2 (5.714%) Perl
6 2 (5.714%) PHP
6 2 (5.714%) Python
6 2 (5.714%) VBA
7 1 (2.857%) VC++
7 1 (2.857%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.571%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.714%) Degree
4 1 (2.857%) CISSP
4 1 (2.857%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) COBIT
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (5.714%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.714%) Adobe
3 2 (5.714%) Retek
4 1 (2.857%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.857%) Sage
4 1 (2.857%) VMware
4 1 (2.857%) Alterian
4 1 (2.857%) Northgate
4 1 (2.857%) Google
4 1 (2.857%) NetSuite
4 1 (2.857%) Citrix
4 1 (2.857%) Business Objects